A/HRC/29/3 E/CN.6/2015/6 programmes in Asia and the Pacific; 26 per cent to programmes in Africa; 14 per cent to programmes in Europe and Central Asia; 12 per cent to programme s in Latin America and the Caribbean; 11 per cent to programmes in the Arab States and North Africa; and 9 per cent to cross-regional programmes. Grants amounting to some 8 per cent of the total ($700,000) were awarded to eight small organizations (those requesting less than $100,000) as part of the Trust Fund’s new strategy to increase funding to smaller grass-roots organizations. 49. Six new Trust Fund-supported programmes in the Gambia, Togo, the State of Palestine, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will address harmful practices. These covered a range of issues from legal initiatives to ban female genital mutilation/cutting in the Gambia to community-based initiatives to end widowhood rituals in Togo that put women at increased risk of HIV/AIDS. 50. New grantee programmes will also provide practical support to women and girls experiencing violence. For example, in Tajikistan, the civil society organization Najoti Kudakon will use community-based interventions to improve access to services for rural women living in mountainous areas. The programme will establish women’s support groups in underserved communities and enhance the only existing safe house offering comprehensive services in the region. 51. Seven new grantees in Albania, Colombia, Egypt, Guatemala, Serbia, Thailand and Zimbabwe will work to address and prevent violence against women who face discrimination and exclusion. For example, in Colombia, the Organización Nacional de Indígenas de Colombia (Indigenous Peoples National Organization) will document and research violence against indigenous women, raise awareness among the community and authorities, train indigenous women as righ ts advocates and provide psychocultural, social, legal and psychological support to indigenous women survivors of violence and their families. 52. Two new programmes will address violence against lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. For example, in Thailand, the Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand will implement a proven Community Life Competence model to empower communities in four provinces to address issues of human rights, violence, stigma and discrimination against lesbian and transgender women. 53. Five new programmes will bolster the implementation of laws and policies to address violence against women. Among them is the grantee in El Salvador, the Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz (Cooperation for Peace Assembly), which will work to improve the coordination and institutional response of relevant stakeholders at the national and municipal levels and help local women’s and youth organizations to develop their oversight and advocacy skills. The intervention will also seek to strengthen existing national data-collection mechanisms, improve police response and increase awareness of violence against women in school s and communities. 54. The Trust Fund will continue to support programmes in conflict, post -conflict and transitional settings. Among the new grantees focusing on this issue is the Story Kitchen, a women’s organization in Nepal, which will work towards ensuring access to justice for women survivors of violence in conflict. In an innovative approach, the programme will pair women conflict survivors with women human rights defenders to reach more survivors through local radio networks, as part of efforts to break the culture of silence around conflict-related violence against women. 12/13 14-67252